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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
WE are explaining this Doctrine that Christs Mediatory Prayer, and so his death is not for all and every one of mankind; Many introductory particulars have been commended to you; The last whereof was, That though the word useth universal expressions about Christs Death, as all men and the world, yet we are necessitated both from Scripture, reason, and experience, not to take them in a large universality but restrained and indefinite, specialis quaedam universalitas est, there is a special Universality, as Austin said.
WE are explaining this Doctrine that Christs Mediatory Praier, and so his death is not for all and every one of mankinde; Many introductory particulars have been commended to you; The last whereof was, That though the word useth universal expressions about Christs Death, as all men and the world, yet we are necessitated both from Scripture, reason, and experience, not to take them in a large universality but restrained and indefinite, specialis quaedam universalitas est, there is a special Universality, as Austin said.
We shall go on to further considerations.
And 1.1 There may be very good reason given why the Scripture speaketh thus universally about Christs death; Not that we should deduce an error from thence contrary to other Scriptures which restrain it to those the Father hath given him, Joh. 6. and Joh. 17.
- 1I. Reasons why the Scripture speaketh thus universally about Christs Death.